Happy New Years

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I just wanted to say Happy New Years to anyone that may stop by tonight. I hope that you have the best New Year to come.
Blessings,
Ginger





Following Gods Path

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December 26,2009



Psalm 25:4-7

"Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD."


Each year I look back and try to remember all the paths that I was on. Some I want to be on again and some I choose not to. All that matters is that the Lord will be with me and guide me on the right path, thank-you Jesus!


I have two goals that I will have this coming year one is Spiritual and one is financial. What I like about having a goal is to see how the Lord works in my life to accomplish it, to see what prayers will be needed and to see how much discipline is needed and to see just what am I willing to sacrifice for these goals. I have no room to be selfish on either one of these goal.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

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Merry Christmas

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December 19,2009 Here is a story I wanted to share with you, it put a smile on my face.

I was talking to a man and his daughter this past week at work, the daughter may have been about 14 years old. The father started to tell me what she wanted for Christmas and as he was telling me he had some tears in his eyes. He said instead of having Christmas gifts she wanted to use that money to feed the homeless. This father was so proud of his daughter for being so generous and he had every right to be. This is a time of year when we hear some touching stories of people helping people. We hear so many bad things all the time that it's nice to hear some good.
I hope that you all have a safe and warm Christmas,
God Bless,
Ginger

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December 14,2009

Blue Monday

I've never posted on Blue Monday before because for the most obvious reason I don't have anything blue. But I felt like I was missing out on the biggest meme in blog land. So this is what I did. I love cottages and gardens so I found some picture from on line to share that just touched my heart. Remember these are not my photos. I guess next time I go shopping I will have Blue Monday in mind :).





















I hope you enjoyed these as much as I did.
Thank-you Sally for hosting Blue Monday, for more Blue Monday's just click on the blue bird.


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Special Prayers For A Special Blogger

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December 12, 2009 I don't know if you remember a blogger who has posted here on Spiritual Sunday before her name is Ashley, she is a young woman who has ovarian cancer. She is in Houston and has been there a few weeks now, she is having a Stem Cell transplant. I thought that instead of leaving me a comment today if you would stop by her blog and leave her a small comment. She is still blogging and giving updates almost daily. Her mom will take over her blog when she has bad days. I know that Stem Cell transplants are very controversial, I know there are different kinds also, but most important I think that she would love to know she is in our prayers. Here is the link to her blog I'm Too Jazzed Too Sleep

Thank-you.


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Tai Pan Trading

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December 7, 2009

Have you been to this new store call Tai Pan Trading? It is such a wonderful store. I spent 3 hours there when I went a couple of weeks ago, I loved it. They are very~very~reasonable. They have the whole store full of Christmas things,
it was beautiful. You should see if there's a store in your area I highly recommend it. OH~~did I mention they have kitchenwares(that's my favorite) and garden things (that's my favorite too.) It was all so beautiful and I had a fun day spending it with my neighbor that move. I hope that you find a store close to you.

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Giving

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That was the best sermon I have ever heard on giving.


Acts20:35
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' " For more Spiritual Sunday's please go here


We are having our 3 grandchildren this weekend so it may be late Sunday before I get a chance to read all of your wonderful post. It's hard to have the 3 little ones and blog, they just don't go together, I've tried :).



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Kitchen Islands

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I love~~~ kitchen islands, I think my favoite island is my husbands aunt Charlotte and his uncle Clif they have a beautiful island in there kitchen. I don't have a picture of it but here are some picture of some beautiful kitchen islands that I found on line.
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Are You Ready?

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Have you ever been to the grocery store and your waiting in line to check out but there seems to be a problem? The person in the front of the line is standing there waiting for the cashier to finish with the order, once the cashier is done the customer gets out her purse, looks for her check book, and then ask for a pin. Well I often wonder why aren't they ready, they know they have to pay their bill, they know it's the only way they will be able to go home is by paying there bill, but they were not ready. We know that Jesus is coming again
because the Bible tells us. Are you ready? Do you want to go home? Or are you going to wait until there is no more time left?


Matthew 24:42 "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come."


Acts 3:19-21 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you - even Jesus. He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.

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HappyThanksgiving

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I saw this picture and enjoyed it so I thought I would share it with all of you. I hope that everyone has a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving.


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Spiritual Sunday

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I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving day, and that you may be able to visit loved ones. For more Spiritual Sundays please visit here

God Bless,
Ginger

A New Font

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I  have noticed that so many blogs had such pretty fonts, I thought to myself that would be nice to have. So I tried and tried to figure it out all by my big girl self. I had lots of problems and then BEHOLD I came across the cutest fonts on the block It was  easy it just took about 2 minutes out of my time. I just wanted to share this with you today . Although the font was small I changed it to 20px instead of 15. Let me know if you like this link as much as I did.

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Hand Made Soap

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 I was so excited to receive some laundry soap  in the mail that I ordered from Carrie at Under The Willow It is such a beautiful fragrance I love it. You don't even need a fabric soften with her laundry soap that's how wonderful it is, it even made the laundry room smell wonderful. I also bought some home made hand soap, that's  just as beautiful as it is wonderful. I just love having hand made soaps in a pretty little bowl in our restroom. You can also go to her esty shop here Her blog has a lot of information so make sure you stop by and see what's new, it would make a wonderful Christmas gift also.

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Believe

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I love all of these scriptures, I can not even imagine what a non believers life is like.
We need to pray for these people. I was going to add more scriptures but then I decided that these were perfect.This is a short post today, I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend. For more Spiritual Sundays please visit here


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Spiritually Dehydrated

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Are there times in your everyday life that you feel like there's something wrong? When things don't go as smooth as normal, or you worry more than normal. When I open my Bible and have a devotional my days go smoother. I'm not so quick to judge, or be angry or even worry. Why is it that I choose to be SO BUSY that I don't find time to open my Bible everyday. I start to feel spiritually dehydrated after a few days. I have a strong prayer life, but I need to have a strong walk with God and that involves having time in his word along with my prayer life, they just go together.

John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

God Bless,
Ginger

Cottages

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For those of you who don't know Jennifer she is so kind to put together a cottage a month for us to few, she works hard at doing this. Well this months cottage is so beautiful I think everyone should stop by and check it out. Just go to to Jennifer's cottage of the month    
If this is your first time visiting her cottage of the month she has 3 years  worth of cottags of the months you can look at, what a nice way to spend  a rainy day.
Blessings,
Ginger

Trust In The Lord

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Isaiah 12:2




Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and not be afraid.
The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation."



We must continue to ask God for wisdom and
insight for strength to preserve. 
He will cause us to rise up and fly
like eagles, walking and not fainting.


By Norma Smalley


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White Wednesday

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This is my first White Wednesday that I am participating in, since white is my favorite color I thought I would join in on the fun. On my side bar just click on White Wednesday and you can visit many more blogs that are doing this fun tribute on white.



First I want to say how much I love white shutters and I use to have them on this window before we did our kitchen renovation. The window size changed so for now I put up some white lace curtains. My favorite thing is when the wind blows the curtains, I think it is so beautiful and serene and then the wind blows my little wind chime that is right by the window. Well I have decided not to put shutters in this window because of the joy I get wind the wind blows



Here is a picture of a white pot that I love. It has chips on it and thats why I love it so much because of the imperfection of it.

Thats all for my first white Wednesday I hope you enjoyed it.
Blessings
Ginger

Before And After

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Today is my first Monday posting for My Cottage Monday, you can click on the picture on my sidebar to see some beautiful cottages.

About 4 years ago, way before the economy is what it is my husband and I made the decision to renovate our home. The pictures below are the before and then right below is the after picture that is taken in the same location. I hope you enjoy my little tour of what I call our cottage. Our entryway before we add a bigger one

After we added it



Here is another picture with the arch opening





This is the before picture



This is the after picture



This is before



This one is after
Well I hope you enjoy our renovation next week.
Have a wonderful day,
Ginger